Avoid “Summer Slide”
There’s a big push nationally to rethink how children spend their summer vacations. The effort to keep kids learning during summer is based on an effort to avoid the summer slide: • Most students fall more than two months behind in math over the summer. • Teachers spend four to six weeks in the fall re-teaching forgotten material. • Their counterparts, in China, India, Sweden, for sure, are not taking 3 months off from school “Parents always say summer is the hardest time to make sure their kids have productive things to do,” says Fairchild. “Summer should be fun and memorable, but parents shouldn’t ...
Counting with Fingers – Is it Bad?
Is it bad to rely on your fingers to count ? Here’s the short answer: counting on your fingers is helpful for a 4 year old child, but spells trouble for a child beyond first grade .. Here’s why. Reason #1: It Drags You Down By the time you are in Middle School, math teachers expect you to know addition, subtraction backward and forward at a clip. When a teacher is explaining algebra on the board, she expects to teach the concept, not slow down for the addition and subtraction in the process. A student who gets dragged down in the ...
Math Worksheets – Ineffective ways to use them
Are there ineffective ways of using Math Worksheets. Do you use math workbooks or worksheets to supplement your child's math learning at home? Math worksheets are essential to develop math skills. They can take a student from learning to mastery, from slow thoughtful application to speedy execution, turn new math muscles into solid math skills - IF employed effectively. Math worksheets and work books can be purchased online, and retail stores like Walmart and Costco. That's the easiest part. I've seen many well-meaning parents invest in the time and money to purchase these math workbooks then wonder why the idea ...
Addition Facts: 99 + 99 + 99
What?! 99 + 99 + 99 is not in your addition facts? How would you compute that? Math Addition facts are great to pick up speed on adding numbers. At our Math Learning Center, we love to challenge kids just one step further. The video below showed how our Chief Instructional Officer Larry Martinek makes adding 99 + 99 + 99 make sense to a grown adult. No, it's not adding them up in vertical columns or adding it up one at a time and memorizing the subtotals. It's easier than that. Kids who can ...
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Avoid the Summer Slide !!
“Studies have found that on average students lose approximately 2.6 months
of grade level in skills over the Summer months”.
Source: Center for Summer Learning, John Hopkins University
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